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Keith, as I am no expert on i.d. STILL, I rely on others, and in this case Cliff has suggested it it is a F30, but we may be wrong! I have to say that there is no evidence of any British-order F60S trucks with # 11 Cabs so far. If it is indeed a F60S then my theory goes out of the window! That is unless there was another series of vehicles supplied under BM/2V83.WS6(d) which I believed was placed in London with the Canadian High Commission to purchase Canadian-ordered trucks that were then shipped to the Mid-East. As the Census Listing merely refers to home numbers, not Mid-East -issued numbers, there could have been some F60S trucks supplied to the Middle East in addition to 1940/1941 Model Ford 4 x 2 trucks. Failing that then the suggestion is that this is a Canadian-order truck assembled in Southampton, and then sold off post-war and shipped to NZ. I have no evidence that the British supplied trucks to the AIF and NZEF in England when they were shipped out to the Mid-East from late 1940...in fact the evidence points to shipments made to Alexandria and then issued to the British, Australian, NZ and Indian forces after a short period.
I have reminded myself that there is a photo of a S/M 2003 Ford
Census Number L 4406114 in WHEELS & TRACKS # 49. Some of this order of 1500 had #12 Cabs.
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